The Ice Diet

kristinegift
kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
in Food and Nutrition
And now for the silliest diet we've ever heard of... THE ICE DIET!
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/the-ice-diet/371614/

"When you eat a significant amount of ice, your body burns energy to melt it. Eating ice should, by the logic of this diet, also provide some level of satiety, if only so far as it physically fills space in the stomach and mouth. By Weiner's calculations, ingesting one liter of ice would burn about 160 calories, which is the energy equivalent of running one mile. So you get to eat and burn calories. Ever since the death of upward mobility, that has been The American Dream."

The snark and sarcasm in this article makes it worth a read :)

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  • Golightly17
    Golightly17 Posts: 347 Member
    Haha! I love that it makes a point of telling you to basically not eat the yellow snow :D
  • girlcalledryan
    girlcalledryan Posts: 241 Member
    This is perfect! Since I cannot run, I will eat so much ice I end up hyponatremic! That will certainly help balance out my calories!! Thanks so much!

    Also lately I have been eating only 600 calories every day and not losing at all. So hopefully you can help figure that out without looking at my diary or me giving you any other information.

    Also, I don't want to hear any criticism.

    LOL

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